{"product_id":"chinatown-copy","title":"Chinatown","description":"\u003ch1\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRACHEL'S PICK\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEver since it came out in Nguyễn An Lý's sterling English translation, \u003cem\u003eChinatown\u003c\/em\u003e has been a perennial favourite. Time to make it official! This book is everything you ever wanted from the plotless fiction shelf. One of my favourite books ever. - RG\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn abandoned package is discovered in the Paris Metro: the subway workers suspect it’s a terrorist bomb. A Vietnamese woman sitting nearby, her son asleep on her shoulder, waits and begins to reflect on her life, from her constrained childhood in communist Hanoi, to a long period of study in Leningrad during the Gorbachev period, and finally to the Parisian suburbs where she now teaches English. Through everything runs her passion for Thuy, the father of her son, a writer who lives in Saigon’s Chinatown, and who, with the shadow of the China-Vietnam border war falling darkly between them, she has not seen for eleven years.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThrough her breathless, vertiginous, and deeply moving monologue from beside the subway tracks, the narrator attempts to once and for all face the past and exorcize the passion that haunts her.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTranslated by Nguyễn An Lý.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback | 184 pages | 5.20\" x 8.10\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Thuan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48796895183080,"sku":"9780811231886","price":25.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0386\/5896\/5549\/files\/BNCImageAPI_49b9ebf0-d18e-4613-b2c7-4d665c705128.jpg?v=1707118101","url":"https:\/\/typebooks.ca\/products\/chinatown-copy","provider":"TYPE Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}